Adventures in PC Frustation Land
I’m back. Got the new PC working and everything I need (hopefully) transferred over from the old one. I actually ended up bringing the first one back to Best Buy – they said the DVD drive was definitely dead and gave me a whole new machine, which was nice. I’ve been very [...]
Sunday Nights on Pay Cable
It took a long time to get going, but HBO’s Carnivà le has actually become riveting, midway through its second season. My initial thoughts on the show was that it was all style and no substance, exemplified by the extremely slow pace of the narrative. It was like a slower Deadwood with a little [...]
Bruce Vilanch is Turning Over in His Grave
The Oscars are over for another year. I’ll leave it to the critics, pundits, and armchair quarterbacks to debate what the whole Sean Penn/Jude Law thing was about. (And why didn’t Sean defend Tim Robbins too?) I’ll just say that the telecast this year sucked. If not for Chris Rock, it [...]
Happy Day After SB Day
Today is my Diversity Day. The company I work for doles out one floating holiday a year, that each employee may take at any time during the year, and it doesn’t count against vacation time. This is presumedly so that Wiccans, for example, can celebrate some solstice that hasn’t been co-opted by the [...]
Not If You Were The Last Band Reunited On Earth
Last night, I watched the documentary DiG!, recorded from the Sundance Channel. (Which was strange, because I thought it was still playing in theaters.) For those of you who don’t know, it’s the 7-year story of two bands, The Dandy Warhols and The Brian Jonestown Massacre, and their respective frontmen, Courtney Taylor and [...]
I (Don’t) Think I Love You
Reality shows just keep getting worse and worse… click on the “read more” to find out about one I’m currently addicted to, that I wish I wasn’t…
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